William Tamplin

William Tamplin is a communications officer in the US Marine Corps and a literary translator from Arabic. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Tamplin attended Georgetown University and was a Fulbright scholar to Jordan. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard. Tamplin is the translator of "Cry in a Long Night" (2022) and "The Other Rooms" (2025) by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and the translator and editor of "Poet of Jordan: The Political Poetry of Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya" (2018).